According to the second volume of the history of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, Mother Mary Cecilia Bailly (general superior after Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, from 1856 to 1868) realized that the room used as a...

This sketch is reminiscent of the sketch in Mother Mary Cecilia Bailly's (b. June 2, 1815, d. Aug. 2, 1898, and second general superior of the Congregation from 1856 to 1868) 1886 book. Second Providence, a convent, was built by Mother Theodore...

This sketch was done by the Rev. John Corbe (b. Nov. 4, 1805, d. June 3, 1872), chaplain of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. This sketch shoes the village church, Academy (with additions of 1846), chapel, chaplain's...

This sketch was copied from Sister Maurice Schnell's (b. Oct. 27, 1830, d. Jan. 13, 1902) work. The text below the sketch reads: "These buildings were finished in the fall of 1842. The different parts of these buildings were moved away, but the...

This was the first parish church, built in a clearing in the woods, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, in 1837 or 1838 by Father Buteux for Bishop Simon Brute. A Brother Joseph, CSC, who was living at Highland near Vincennes, Indiana, in 1887,...

In 1842, Bishop Celestine de La Hailandiere built this small brick church in imitation of the Roman Pantheon. Square below, the upper part and the roof were circular. The only windows were a row of small lunettes near the roof for lighting. Its...

This was the log cabin chapel that Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and her five companion-sisters walked to Oct. 22, 1840, to give thanks for a safe voyage from France. It also served as the house of Father Buteux. Mother Theodore measured it as 13 X...